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GOODWYN INSTITUTE BUILDING 



Corner of Madison Avenue and Third Street, 
Memphis, Tennessee 



YEAR BOOK, 1915-16 

NINTH SEASON 



Good>i^yn Institute N^«/oi^ 

Founded hy Wm. A. Goodwyn, Deceased. 
Dedicated September 30, 1907 



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FREE PUBLIC LECTURES 
FREE REFERENCE LIBRARY 



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Officers of Goodwyn Institute 



State or Tennessee 
Trustee 



J. M. GOODBAR 

John R. Pepper W. J. Crawford 

Commissioners 



C. C. Ogilvie Superintendent 

Miss Marilla Waite Freeman Librarian 

Miss Marion J. Weaver Library Assistant 

Miss Mary F. Miller . . Stenographer and Library Assistant 
T. H. LiEBENRooD Buildiug Manager 



ANNOUNCEMENT 




HIS, the ninth annual season of 
pubHc lectures, given free to the 
citizens of Memphis by Goodwyn 
Institute, begins November 9th, 
1915, and ends April 21st, 1916. 

The Goodwyn Institute lectures have now become an 
important and firmly established part of the educational, 
cultural and recreational life of Memphis, and each year 
the appearance of the Institute's Year Book, giving the 
schedule of the season's lectures and announcing the growth 
and new special work of the Library, is eagerly awaited by 
its large number of interested patrons. 

The vast majority of the citizens of Memphis, whom this 
Year Book will reach, are familiar with the history and 
purposes of Goodwyn Institute, and a short statement of 
these is necessary here only for the enlightenment of the 
stranger and the new patron. 

Goodwyn Institute was founded by Mr. William A. Good- 
wyn, a former citizen of Memphis, who gave practically 
his entire fortune, amounting to about $500,000, to endow 
it. Mr. Goodwyn's will provided that this endowment 
should be invested in a building, to be named Goodwyn 
Institute, and that the income from the rentals of the build- 
ing should maintain its two educational agencies. The 
work and purposes of the Institute can best and most suc- 
cinctly be explained by quoting from Mr. Goodwyn's will; 

"The building or buildings to be erected shall be satisfac- 
tory to said commissioners, but such portion thereof as can 
shall be rented for the purpose of obtaining a revenue for 
the maintenance of a public library and public lectures. 
One part of said building shall be devoted to lectures and 

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another part to a library^ and the use of the library shall be 
free to all^ under the rules and regulations to be made by 
said commissioners; and the lectures shall be free^ and the 
whole will be for instruction, and not for entertainment 
merely. All of the rents, profits and income derived shall 
be faithfully used and aDi3lied, together with any part of 
this legacy not used in purchasing or building (after pay- 
ment of repairs, expenses, insurance, etc.), to pay lecturers 
and the purchase of books, charts, maps and apparatus. 
No part of the building is to be used for political gather- 
ings, but when the lecture hall is not used otherwise it may 
be rented for musical concerts, art exhibitions or other pur- 
poses likely to elevate public morals and taste." 

From the beginning the people of Memphis of all classes 
have shown their appreciation of Mr. Goodwyn's beneficent 
gift to their city by their liberal patronage of Goodwyn 
Institute's splendid educational facilities. Its Auditorium 
is usually crowded and its well equipped, comprehensive, 
active Reference Library is taxed to meet the constant 
demands upon it. 

This large and increasing patronage is in turn highly 
appreciated by the Institute's Management, whose desire 
and ambition is that this unique, democratic, free educa- 
tional institution, located in the heart of the city, may, 
through its lectures and library, bring some inspiration and 
assistance to every citizen of Memphis. 

LECTURES 

It is the effort of the Institute that each season's lectures 
shall equal and, if possible, surpass in quality and attrac- 
tiveness those of former seasons. The Institute wishes to 
give to the citizens of Memphis lecture courses equivalent 
to those offered by any institution in America, and the course 
provided for this season compares favorably with those pre- 
sented by the oldest and best established lecture centers and 
universities. 

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The lectures cover a wide range of subjects. The pur- 
pose of these lectures is to provide a system of continued 
education along general lines for adults, to present the best 
thought and results of modern scholarship in non-technical 
terms, to stimulate more extensive reading and study, to 
arouse and encourage the young, and to provide profitable 
and intellectual entertainment. 

All of the lecturers engaged are of established reputation 
and unquestioned ability, possessing full and authoritative 
knowledge of their subjects and experienced in the art of 
presenting these subjects in a popular and effective manner. 

The strongest endorsement Goodwyn Institute can give 
any speaker is to seek his return. The information given 
about lecturers in this book is necessarily very brief. Space 
will allow only a few comments and a few extracts from 
newspaper notices — just enough to introduce the speakers, 
especially those appearing here for the first time. Much 
additional information concerning the season's lecturers may 
be obtnined in Goodwyn Institute Library, where may be 
had also many of the books written by the lecturers. 

SUGGESTIONS FOR DEFINITE STUDY 

More satisfactory results, both in entertainment and per- 
manent information, can be obtained from these lectures by 
studying the subjects in advance. It is suggested to our 
patrons that they carefully examine this schedule, and now 
begin a study and investigation of the subjects in which 
they are most interested. The lectures will thus prove more 
beneficial and serve to stimulate a still further course of 
profitable reading and study. Goodwyn Institute Library 
will furnish all books, maps and current literature necessary 
for such studies and investigations. 

Reading lists and bibliographies on any subject will be 
gladly prepared by the Library for those desiring them. 
Such lists will also be frequently published in the daily 

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papers and posted on the bulletin boards of Goodwyn 
Institute. 

PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED 

A most earnest and cordial invitation is extended to YOU 
to attend these lectures. They are absolutely free, and are 
of the highest standard procurable. 

You and your friends will always be heartily welcomed, 
and your personal interest in the lectures and in all work 
of Goodwyn Institute will be sincerely appreciated. 



LECTURES AND LECTURE COURSES 
SEASON OF 1915-1916 

Beginning Tuesday Night, November 9^ 1915 
Ending Friday Night, April 21, 1916 

All Lectures are given in Goodwyn Institute Auditorium, and 
begin promptly at 8:15 p.m. Doors of the Auditorium are opened 
at 7:30 p.m. 

I. One Lecture by Hon. James L. Slayden, orator and business 
man, Congressman from Texas. 

Tuesday, November 9 — "The United States and Spanish 
America." 

Hon. James L. Slayden is one of the prominent members of 
Congress from the South, and is eminently qualified to discuss 
with authority all relations between the United States and Spanish 
America. 

Since 1867 Mr. Slayden has lived in Texas, engaged in ranching, 
farming and other business pursuits. He has been intimately 
acquainted with Mexico and its people for thirty-five years. Since 
1896 he has served continuously as a representative from Texas 
in the United States Congress. 

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II. One Lecture Reading by Mr. Frederick Warde, actor and 
lecturer, of New York. 

Tuesday, November 16 — "Shakespeare and His Plays." 

Famous as a Shakespearean actor, and one of the ripest Shakes- 
pearean scholars, Frederick Warde has done more than any living 
man in the last quarter century to popularize the study of Shakes- 
peare in this country. To teach people how to read, enjoy, know 
and love Shakespeare is now Mr. Warde's life purpose. 

Mr. Warde's last visit to Goodwyn Institute was an event of 
the year in Memphis and resulted in a Shakespeare revival. 

III. One Lecture Reading by Mr. Alfred Noyes, English poet. 

Wednesday, November 17 — "Readings of His Own 
Poems," with comments on Poetry. 

On his former visit to Goodwyn Institute, Alfred Noyes was 
presented to his audience by our own beloved and revered poet, 
Walter Malone, who considered him the greatest living English 
poet. 

Since then Mr. Noyes has grown in reputation in America, both 
as a poet and as a lecturer, and there is little doubt that to him 
is due in a large measure the credit for the recent noticeable 
growth in the appreciation of poetry. Few men of letters have 
so thoroughly won the hearts of the people through the reading of 
their own works as has Alfred Noyes. "Drake," "Tales of the 
Mermaid Tavern," and other volumes of Mr. Noyes' poems are in 
Goodwyn Institute Library. 

IV. Two Dramatic Recitals and One Lecture Reading by Mr. 
Frederick Warde. 

Thursday, November 18— "Richard III." 

Friday, November 19 — "The Women of Shakespeare." 

Saturday, November 20 — "Julius Caesar." 

V. Two Lectures by Norman Angell, author, editor and lec- 
turer, of America and England. 

Monday, November 22 — "The Great Illusion." 

Tuesday, November 23 — "America and the World State.'* 

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Norman Angell — Ralph Norman Angell Lane — is an English- 
man, whose youth was spent in America on a Western ranch. At 
twenty-four he returned to Europe as a correspondent for various 
American newspapers. He soon became a successful newspaper 
manager in Paris and Switzerland, and later an associate of Lord 
Northcliffe in the establishment of The Continental Daily Mail. 
Within a few years he was the most widely read of all writers 
treating of international politics, with his books translated into 
some twenty-five languages. 

Mr. Angell's books, "The Great Illusion," "Arms and Industry," 
"America and the New World State," and his monthly publica- 
tion, "War and Peace," may be had in Goodwyn Institute Library. 

The New York World of September 13, 1914, speaking of the 
bearing of Mr. Angell's works on the present war, said: 

"Who will "win" in the present war? Who will "lose?" And 
just what will they win and lose? Will Germany be "destroyed?" 
Will England be "wiped out?" Will any of these countries "lose" 
their colonies? And if so, what loss will it involve? 

"These questions were all answered about four years ago in a 
way that made Norman Angell immediately famous. Today, by 
virtue of those answers, he is in the minds of thousands of very 
keen thinkers, a towering figure in international affairs." 

Mr. Angell invites questions at the conclusion of his lectures. 

VI. Two Lectures by Dr. Charles Zueblin, publicist and lec- 
turer, of Boston. 

Tuesday, November 30— "The Twentieth Century City." 

Wednesday, December 1 — "Man and Woman." : 

Charles Zueblin is a free lance of democracy. Having been 
graduated from classical and theological courses at American 
universities, having studied social philosophy and social movements 
in European universities and cities, and having served his novitiate 
as a social settlement worker in Chicago, he became a university 
teacher. During sixteen years at the University of Chicago as a 
member of the University Extension staff, his labors were chiefly 
those of a social and civic evangelist beyond the university walls. 

As his experience widened, his democratic faith matured and 
he responded to the call of the larger parish and became an 
independent lecturer on democracy. To him democracy is not a 
form of government, but a faith and a life — the life of all by 
the co-operation of all for the welfare of all. 

Dr. Zueblin's books, "Democracy and the Overman," "The 

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Religion of a Democrat," and "American Municipal Progress," 
are in Goodwyn Institute Library. 

VII. Three Lectures on Modern European Literature by John 
Cowper Powys, M.A., author, critic and lecturer, of London, Eng. 

Wednesday, December 29 — "Goethe: The Pioneer of the 
Modern Spirit; or the Genius of Germany." 

Thursday, December 30 — "Dostoievsky; or the Soul of 
Russia." 

Friday, December 31 — "Balzac and^ De Maupassant; or 
the Genius of France." 

John Cowper Powys, M. A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 
University, is announced as England's foremost interpreter of 
great literatvire and as one of the most brilliant lecturers on litera- 
ture of this generation. 

For twelve years before coming to America, Mr. Powys was 
engaged in England as Staff Lecturer on Literature for the 
Oxford, Cambridge and London University Extension Staffs. He 
has also lectured extensively in Germany. Since 1905 he has 
spent parts of each year in America, and the demand for his 
lectures has constantly increased. 

The following is quoted from an editorial of the Chicago Even- 
ing Post of January 15, 1915: 

"The lecture season is upon us, and many of our readers who 
are prejudiced against popular lectures now have an opportunity 
to revise their prepossessions in the light of experience. It is to 
be feared that the average American Chautauqua product has 
caused many people to shun the popular lecture platform as they 
would shun undesirable theatrical projects, and it is a pity if 
the lecture platform at its best suffer on that account. 

"For the best criticism of life and of literature that is being 
done in Chicago today is the work of two Englishmen of marked 
personality, and it is being done from the platform. Probably 
many readers already guess that we refer to I. B. Stoughton 
Holborn, who is lecturing under the auspices of the University 
of Chicago Lecture Association, and to John Cowper Powys, who 
is this year speaking at the Little Theater. 

"Mr. Powys has an extraordinary power of getting under the 
skin, of surprising the inmost secrets of the greatest masters of 
literature of all lands, and of presenting to us for a magical hour 

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the worlds created out of the universal flux by these diflferent and 
opposing minds." 

"It is an experience worth while for a community to come in 
contact with such a stimulating and unusual personality. His 
challenge provokes thinking." — Kansas City Star. 

Mr. Powys' literary essays, "Visions and Revisions," and his 
book on the European war, "War and Culture," are in Goodwyn 
Institute Library. 

VIII. A Course of Nine Popular Health Lectures, six by Dr. 
William S. Sadler, surgeon, author and teacher, and three by 
his wife, Dr. Lena K. Sadler, physician, mother and lecturer, of 
Chicago. 

Thursday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. — "The Science of Living, 
or the Art of Keeping Well," by Dr. William S. Sadler. 

Thursday, January 6, 3:30 p.m. — "Little Foxes That Spoil 
the Health," by Dr. Lena K. Sadler. 

Thursday, January 6, 8:15 p.m. — "Worry and Nervous- 
ness, or the Science of Self Mastery," by Dr. William 
S. Sadler. 

Friday, January 7, 10:30 a.m. — "When Doctors Disagree, 
What Shall the Layman Do?" by Dr. William S. Sadler. 

Friday, January 7, 3:30 p.m. — "The Rising Generation," 
by Dr. Lena K. Sadler. 

Friday, January 7, 8:15 p.m. — "Americanitis, or the High 
Pressure Life," by Dr. William S. Sadler, assisted by 
Dr. Lena K. Sadler. 

Saturday, January 8, 10:30 a.m. — ^'*Childhood Purity," a 
talk to mothers by a physician mother, by Dr. Lena K. 
Sadler. 

Saturday, January 8, 3:30 p.m. — "Medical Round Table," 
devoted to the answering of questions — ^Drs. William S. 
and Lena K. Sadler. 

Saturday, January 8, 8:15 p.m.— "The Weak and the 
Strong, or the Tragedy of Civilization," by Dr. William 
S. Sadler. 

It is rare that a busy practicing physician and surgeon of high 
professional and ethical standing consents to stand upon the plat- 

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form and instruct laymen in the science of living, or keeping well. 

Dr. Sadler is a graduate of the regular school of medicine. He 
is Professor and head of the Department of Therapeutics in the 
Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, where hundreds of 
physicians attend his clinic each year. He is also Medical Direc- 
tor of the Chicago Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics. He is 
a contributor to the leading magazines and medical journals of 
America, and is the author of a large number of popular medical 
works. 

Dr. Sadler represents no medical fad, cult or school, is not a 
traveling physician and refuses to examine or prescribe for the 
sick in connection with his lecture work. An enthusiastic, sincere 
physician and teacher, he is in earnest in his efforts to promote 
righteous and healthful living, and delivers his health messages for 
these purposes only. 

Questions on general health problems may be asked at the con- 
clusion of the lectures. 

DR. LENA K. SADLER 

Before studying medicine. Dr. Lena K. Sadler was a public 
school teacher and afterward a trained nurse. She is now a prac- 
ticing physician and professional co-laborer with Dr. William S. 
Sadler. She is Associate Professor of Physiologic Therapeutics in 
the Post Graduate Medical School of Chicago, Associate Director 
of the Chicago Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics and is a 
specialist in the diseases of women and children. 

Her lectures and demonstrations are very popular — interesting 
alike to men and women. One of her lectures is given to women 
only. Her lectures, like Dr. William S. Sadler's, are highly 
scientific, but are expressed in simple, plain language. 

A DEPARTURE 

In presenting some of the lectures of the Drs. Sadler at morn- 
ing and afternoon hours, Goodwyn Institute has departed from 
its established plan of lectures at night only. 

This departure has been made because of the wish to give our 
people the opportunity to hear these prominent health experts 
and because upon no other plan could the Institute secure them 
for the number of lectures desired. 

It is also planned to make a test of day lectures to govern the 
future policy of the Institute. If a sufficiently large number of 
people in Memphis are not interested enough in these personal and 
vital subjects to fill Goodwyn Institute auditorium for the morn- 
ing and afternoon lectures, it would seem to be conclusive proof 
that day lectures should not be attempted again. 

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IX. Two Lecture Recitals by Henry Gideon, composer and lec- 
turer, assisted by his wife, Constance Ramsay Gideon, singer and 
musician, of Boston. 

Friday, January 14 — "Folk Music of the Five Nations." 
Saturday, January 15 — "Folk and Art Songs — a Program 
of Contrast." 

Henry L. Gideon, native of Louisville, Ky., A.M. of Harvard 
University, student of music for several years in Europe, is a 
well-known authority and experienced lecturer on opera, folk 
song and worship music. His Wife, Constance Ramsay Gideon, 
mezzo, is of British birth and education, and is a folk singer of 
unusual personal charm. 

"The audience crowded the house. Mr. Gideon's interesting 
exposition and engaging manner, and Mrs. Gideon's artistic sing- 
ing of folk songs held their attention to the end." — Louisville Post. 

"An unusual concert, * * * something really new and also 
fine." — Newport News. 

X. Three Illustrated Lectures on Foreign Countries, by 
Arthur Stanley Riggs, traveler, author and lecturer, of New York. 

Thursday, January 20 — "Egypt and the Nile: The Bor- 
derland of Civilization." 

Friday, January 21 — "The Expositions of 1915 as Land- 
marks of Human Achievement." 

Saturday, January 22 — "Vistas in Sicily." 

Arthur Stanley Riggs has won an enviable reputation among 
those American travelers and scholars who spend the larger por- 
tion of their time in visiting and studying foreign countries, and 
who return with pictures, facts and impressions of great interest. 
Mr. Riggs' lectures are entertaining, but not superficial. He knows 
intimately the countries upon which he lectures and is familiar 
with their past histories and their present conditions and prob- 
lems. His pictures of people, cities and buildings are made 
largely from his own negatives, are well selected and are beau- 
tifully and artistically colored. 

Mr. Riggs' lectures at Goodwyn Institute last season were 
exceedingly well received. 

XI. One Lecture by John Masefield, English poet. 

Saturday, January 29— "English Poetry," with readings 
from his own poems. 

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The visit of John Masefield to America this year is attracting 
wide attention, for few men have passed through so much to rise 
so high. Anything more picturesque than this writers biography 
could scarcely be invented, even by a craftsman with the powers 
of a Jack London. 

To make this visit to America, Mr. Masefield leaves the Darda- 
nelles, where he is in charge of a hospital ship, fitted out and 
operated with his own means. 

Critics pronounce Masefield the most promising figure in the 
world of poetry and one of the most interesting personalities in 
the history of letters. 

"John Galsworthy says Masefield is not only the man of the 
hour, but 'the man of tomorrow, too, in poetry and in the play- 
writing craft.' 'The Tragedy of Pompey the Great', and a one- 
act play in verse, 'Philip the King,' are strong evidences that 
Galsworthy's estimate of Masefield's dramatic power is well 
founded. Perhaps no finer poetry of the present war has yet 
been written than Masefield's 'August, 1914.' Prof. Quiller- 
Couch of Cambridge regards Masefield's poem story, 'The Daffodil 
Fields,' as the most convincing proof that the author is a great 
artist. There is no doubt Masefield's name is high in the poetic 
firmament of our day — and presumably will be in the sk}'' of 
tomorrow." 

Mr. Masefield's poems and plays are in Goodwyn Institute 
Library. 

XII. Three Lectures by B. R. Baumgardt, traveler and lecturer, 
of California. 

Monday, January 31— "The Trend of Thought in Europe." 

Tuesday, February 1 — "Paris: the Historic City." Illus- 
trated. 

Wednesday, February 2 — "Rome, Ancient, Medieval and 
Modem." Illustrated. 

In all principal lecture centers, whether under the auspices of 
institutes, universities or clubs, the Baumgardt lectures are 'firmly 
established. Mr. Baumgardt's knowledge of universal history, his 
vast fund of interesting facts on all subjects, his simple, direct 
and excellent diction, his oratorical climaxes, his unusual platform 
mastery and his attractive personality are sufficient to make this 
national demand for his time. In addition to this, Mr. Baum- 
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beautiful pictures, but these are purely incidental. The lectures 
stand out predominant. 

This is the third consecutive season Goodwyn Institute has given 
the people of Memphis opportunity to enjoy Mr. Baumgardt's 
brilliant lectures. 

XIII. Onel/Bcture by Dr. Earl Barnes, author and lecturer, of 
Philadelphia. 

Saturday, February 5 — "The Need for Social Inventions.'* 

After graduation from Cornell University, Dr. Barnes was suc- 
cessively a member of the faculties of Cornell, Indiana and Leland 
Stanford Universities, and was for eight years a student and 
lecturer in England. He is at present head of the Chautauqua, 
New York, Summer School of Psychology and Pedagogy, and is 
one of the best known lecturers in England and America on 
pedagogical, social and economic subjects. He is the author of 
"Studies in Education," "Where Knowledge Fails," and "Woman in 
Modern Society/' which books are in Goodwyn Institute Library. 

Dr. Barnes is an ardent advocate of the Single Tax and in 
recent years has lectured on this subject in all of the large cities 
of the United States. 

XIV. Three Illustrated Lectures on "Art in Daily Life," by 
Mr. I. B. Stoughton Holborn, M.A., F.R.G.S., StafE Lecturer on 
Art and Literature for the Oxford, Cambridge and London Uni- 
versity Extension Staffs, of London, England. 

Friday, February 11— "The Need for Art in Life." 

Saturday, February 12 — "Art and Citizenship: The 
Houses of the People." 

Monday^ February 14 — "A Reform in Popular Taste: 
Modern Dress and Its Shortcomings." 

I. B. Stoughton Holborn, M.A., F.R.G.S., Merton College, Ox- 
ford University, is a staff lecturer on Art, Archaeology and Lit- 
erature for the great English universities, and has also lectured 
with great success in France, Germany and Switzerland. He is 
the author of "Architectures of European Religions," "Tinto- 
retto," "The Need of Art in Life," and "Children of Fancy," a 
volume of poems. 

It is claimed that Mr. Holborn is the greatest Art lecturer in 
the world, and in three brief seasons in America he has risen to 

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the very foremost among educational lecturers, having repeatedly 
appeared with unusual success before the best known lecture cen- 
ters, art institutes and universities of the North, East and West. 
His lectures are illustrated with stereopticon pictures and black- 
board drawings. 

Mr. Holborn was one of the passengers on the ill-fated Lusi- 
tania. 

XV. Three Lectures by Dr. Stanton Colt, writer and lecturer. 
President of the Ethical Society, London, England. 

Thursday, February 17 — "Europe in the Melting Pot." 

Friday, February 18 — "The Moral Destiny of America." 

Saturday, February 19 — "Woman and the State." 

Dr. Stanton Coit is a native of Ohio, but has for many years 
lived in England, where he is President of the West London 
Ethical Society. He is the founder of the Moral Education League 
of England, and in 1886 founded the first University Settlement 
in America. 

"Dr. Coit is one of the boldest and most independent thinkers 
of our day on questions of literature, art, religion, economics, 
psychology and ethics, and yet he is pre-eminently a constructive 
thinker, with a gift of sympathetic imagination. His message, for 
instance, to Americans, is that America herself is an organic unit 
of spiritual life, destined to create a new life and literature, a 
new political economy and science of the mind." 

Dr. Coit comes to Goodwyn Institute highly recommended as 
one of the most inspiring and eloquent speakers on the lecture 
platform of the English-speaking world. 

Dr. Coit's latest book, "The Soul of America," which has- 
aroused great interest in this country, may be had in Goodwyru 
Institute Library. 

XVI. Two Lectures by Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, 
actress, author and lecturer, of New York. 

Tuesday, February 22 — "What Feminism Is." 

Wednesday, February 23 — "The Drama as a Social 
Force", with illustrative readings. 

One of a family that for three generations has held a distin- 
guished place in English dramatic and literary life. Miss Beatrice 

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Forbes-Robertson at the age of seventeen was on the stage with 
Sir Henry Irving. Her reputation was soon made and in 1907 she 
came to America with Miss Ellen Terry. After several seasons 
of brilliant and successful work she joined the New Theater 
Company in New York for its first season, at the close of which 
she married Mr. Swinburne Hale, a New York lawyer, and thus 
became an American citizen. 

Since 1910, Mrs, Hale has ceased to act and has devoted herself 
to lecturing upon poetry, the drama, English and American 
politics, with special reference to the rise of modern democracy, 
and upon woman suffrage and feminism in their various phases. 
She has spoken in twenty-one states on woman suffrage. Her 
exposition of feminism, "What Women Want," although pub- 
lished only a few months ago, is already in its third edition. This 
book is in Goodwyn Institute Library. 

"A latter day Hypatia, distinctly beautiful, eloquent, brilliant." 
— Detroit Free Press. 

"One of the greatest charms of her address was her reading of 
parts of plays." — St. Louis Globe. 

XVII. One Dramatic Reading by Mrs. William Calvin Chilton, 
public reader, of Oxford, Mississippi. 

Thursday, March 2 — "The Lady From Oklahoma," a com- 
edy in three acts, by Elizabeth Jordan. 

Few public readers and interpreters of dramatic literature on 
the lyceum and chautauqua platforms have won more universal 
and enthusiastic commendation than Mrs. Chilton. 

Mrs. Chilton is well known in Memphis, and is always greeted 
with large audiences at Goodwyn Institute. 

"Mrs. William Calvin Chilton is a graceful reader. In her 
renditions of dialect and humorous selections she is incomparable." 
—New Orleans Picayune. 

XVIII. One Lecture by Dr. Earl Barnes, author and lecturer, 
of Philadelphia. 

Saturday, March 4— "Single Tax." 

XIX. Two Lectures by Dr. Edwin Mims, author and lecturer, 
head of the Department of English of Vanderbilt University. 

Monday, March 6 — "Social Questions in the Novel." 

Tuesday, March 7 — "Social Problems in the Drama." 
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Dr. Mims is one of the South's most brilliant and prominent 
lecturers and writers on literary subjects. He has won the repu- 
tation of being perhaps the leading authority on the literature 
of the South, and it is largely through his efforts and publications 
that Southern writers are securing wider recognition in American 
Literature. 

This is the second series of lectures given by Dr. Mims for 
Goodwyn Institute. His best known works, "Life of Sidney 
Lanier," "Southern Fiction" and "Southern Prose and Poetry" 
are in Goodwyn Institute Library. 

XX. Three Illustrated Lectures on The South America of 
Today, The ABC Countries, by Charles Wellington Furlong, 
F.R.G.S., of Boston. 

Monday, March 13 — "Brazil, the Land of the Southern 
Cross, with Glimpses of Uruguay." 

Tuesday, March 14 — "Fertile Argentina and Its Vast 
Patagonian Pampas." 

Wednesday, March 15— "Chile, the Strait of Magellan, 
and the Wondrous Fuegian Archipelago." 

Charles Wellington Furlong is unusually well equipped to pre- 
sent illustrated travel lectures. He was educated in Europe and 
America as an artist and illustrator. In 1902 to 1904 he traveled 
and explored in Northern Africa for the Outlook and other mag- 
azines, and since that time has spent the greater portion of his 
time traveling in and studying foreign countries. 

South America contains vast areas of unexplored regions, and 
also some of the most prosperous, cultivated areas, while its 
greatest cities are among the most beautiful on the globe. Mr. 
Furlong's journeys in South America covered over 40,000 miles. 
He has lived among the peoples he describes and has studied them 
and their lands from the viewpoint of explorer, scientist, writer 
and artist. He is known as one of the foremost authorities on 
South America. 

XXI. Five Illustrated Lectures on "The Story of Modern 
Science," by Dr. Samuel C. Schmucker, scientist, author and lec- 
turer, Professor of Biological Sciences at West Chester State Nor- 
mal School, West Chester, Pa. 

Monday, March 20 — "The Birth and Growth of Suns." 
Tuesday, March 21— "The Life History of the Earth." 

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Wednesday, March 32— "The Life of the Plant." 
Thursday, March 33 — "The Animal Machine." 
Friday, March 34 — "The Human Race." 

The patrons of Goodwyn Institute have shown each year an 
unusually enthusiastic and an increasing interest in the scientific 
lectures given by Dr. Schmucker. A profound student and orig- 
inal investigator of the subjects discussed. Dr. Schmucker delivers 
his lectures in non-technical language and illumines them vi^ith 
appropriate and entertaining examples and illustrations. He is 
regarded as the most popular lecturer on science in America. 

Dr. Schmucker comes this year for his fifth series of lectures 
on biological sciences at Goodwyn Institute. Much interest is 
added to Dr. Schmucker's lectures by the question period at the 
close of each lecture. 

XXII. Three Lectures by Dr. J. Paul Goode, teacher and lec- 
turer, Professor of Geography, University of Chicago. 

Thursday, March 30 — "The Geographic and Economic In- 
fluences in the Great War." 

Friday, March 31 — "The Great Seaports of Europe." 

Saturday, April 1 — "Japan as a World Power." 

Dr. John Paul Goode, of the Department of Geography of the 
University of Chicago, has in past seasons given two excellent 
courses of lectures for Goodwyn Institute. On account of the 
probable changes in the map of the world in the near future, his 
lectures "at this time will prove particularly interesting and 
enlightening. 

Dr. Goode's special interest is in economic geography, with the 
Iiuman interest dominant. A wide experience in industrial life 
•and extended travel enable him to present his lectures with the 
^flavor of the participator or observer at first hand. 

As a lecturer the University Extension Division has said of 
him: "Few men have in the same length of time so desirably 
adapted themselves to the demands of university extension audi- 
ences as has Prof. Goode. Of broad scholarship, of pleasing 
presence and good voice, he has proven himself to be an invaluable 
man in this work. His lectures are presented in a scientific spirit, 
but at the same time in a way to arouse popular interest amount- 
ing at times to genuine enthusiasm. He is one of few men who 

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can present science in a manner at the same time instructive and 
pleasing to a general audience." 

XXIII. Two Lectures and One Dramatic Recital by Monta- 
ville Flowers, lecturer and dramatic reader, of California. 

Thursday, April 6— "Color Guard and Picket Line." 

Friday, April 7— "The Drama of Human Conscience: 
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables." 

Saturday, April 8— "Rebuilding the Temple.*' 

Montaville Flowers is one of the best known dramatic readers 
and orators on the lyceum platform. He has twice been honored 
with the presidency of the International Lyceum Association. 

Already known as one of America's great public readers and 
interpreters of dramatic literature, in recent years Mr. Flowers 
has devoted much of his time to more serious lecture work under 
the University Extension Divisions of the Universities of Minne- 
sota, Wisconsin, Indiana and North Dakota. 

"Color Guard and Picket Line" is an interpretation of the Jap- 
anese problem in America. 

"Rebuilding the Temple" is a study of civilization and its 
reconstruction, with special lessons for the United States out of 
the present war. 

XXIV. Three Lectures on "The Ethics of Personal Life,** by 
Dr. Edward Howard Griggs, author, philosopher and lecturer, of 
New York. 

Thursday, April 13— "The Aim of Life." 

Friday, April 14 — "The Problem of Personal Relation- 
ships." 

Saturday, AprU 15 — "The Modem Religious Problem." 

In 1899 Dr. Edward Howard Griggs gave up the chair of Ethics 
and Education at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, to devote him- 
self to writing and public lecturing. Since then his reputation 
has grown until today he is generally recognized as the most 
famous and versatile lecturer of America. 

This is the sixth consecutive lecture season in which Goodwyn 
Institute has' been fortunate enough to secure Dr. Griggs for a 
series of lectures. Patrons of the Institute now realize the great 
value of these brilliant lectures on ethics, literature and philoso- 

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phy. Particularly attractive are the subjects to be discussed this 
year, as Dr. Griggs is to present his theories and solutions of the 
purposes of life, its personal relationships and its proper 
aspirations. 

The following books by Dr. Griggs are in Goodwyn Institute 
Library: "Moral Education," "The New Humanism," "The Philos- 
ophy of Art," "The Use of the Margin." 

XXV. A Program of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Read- 
ings and Cartoons by the Boston Lyrics: Mr. F. R. Jordan, Jr., 
Mrs. Carolyn Jordan and Miss Bertha Wells. 

Friday, April 21 — "The Boston Lyrics." 

The Boston Lyrics come to Goodwyn Institute highly commended 
as artists of experience and ability. The company is composed of 
Mr. Flavel R. Jordan, Jr., baritone, instrumentalist and cartoon- 
ist, Mrs. Carolyn Jordan, accompanist,, and Miss Bertha Wells, 
reader and instrumentalist. These talented artists give a delight- 
fully varied program of drawings, singing, reading and instru- 
mental music. 



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GOODWYN INSTITUTE LIBRARY 

The scope and purpose of Goodwyn Institute Library 
should by this time, after its first eight years of existence, 
be known to every citizen of Memphis. Through weekly 
newspaper notices and book lists, through its street car 
cards, bulletins in public places, announcements from the 
auditorium platform, personal letters to members of busi- 
ness, civic and professional organizations, talks by its 
librarian to schools and clubs, the Library has endeavored 
to make known its resources and its desire to serve the 
public. That this effort has not been made in vain is shown 
by the increasing number of business and professional 
people, and men and women of all classes, who come to 
the Library for specific information or for general reading. 

HOW TO USE THE LIBRARY 

That there are, however, still many people in Memphis 
who understand only vaguely, if at all, the character and 
use of Goodwyn Institute Library, is evidenced by the 
frequency of such inquiries as the following: Is it necessary 
for me to have an application card signed before using this 
Library? Is there a charge for using the Library.'' Can 
I take the books home? What kind of books does the 
Library have? 

Let us state here, as we do to such inquirers, that in 
accord with the terms of Mr. Goodwyn's will, the use of 
Goodwyn Institute Library is absolutely free to all; that no 
form of application for its use is necessary, and no cards 
are used; that all are welcome to take books and magazines 
from its shelves to the reading tables, and that the librarian 
and her assistants gladly respond to requests for informa- 
tion or for assistance in looking up any subject whatever; 
that since Memphis already had, in the Cossitt Library, a 
free lending library from which books might be borrowed 

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for home use, Goodwyn Institute Library was established 
as a free reference or study library, where all books and 
other resources of the Library may at all times be found 
upon the shelves for immediate use in study and investiga- 
tion; that, however, in cases of special necessity, books, 
magazines and pamphlets are allowed to be taken from the 
Library for a limited period; that the Library has books 
and other material on practically all subjects, with special 
emphasis, however, on what are known as the useful arts; 
such arts as those of engineering, building, farming, home- 
making and manufacturing. 

WHAT THE LIBRARY HAS FOR YOU 

Are you, for example, a manufacturer? Do you know 
that in Goodwyn Institute Library you may consult "Kelly's 
Directory of Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the 
World," or "Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers 
and First Hands in All Lines," or Hough's "Practical 
Exporting"? Or the reports of the United States Census 
Bureau on the manufactures and industries of every state 
and city in the Union, including our own? Or the bulletins 
of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce? Or the Bulletin of the Pan-American Union, 
the series of "South American Handbooks," and other pub- 
lications covering trade opportunities in South America? 
Or books on special manufactures and industries, from cot- 
ton seed products and the lumber business to the carbonic 
acid industry and the new American dye making? Or the 
Manufacturers' Record, the American Lumberman, the 
Motor Age, the American Wool and Cotton Reporter and 
other trade j ournals ? 

A Boston manufacturer recently in Memphis to investigate 
local trade conditions, shipping facilities, cost of living, 
labor conditions, spent many hours each day for a week in 
Goodwyn Institute Library and secured most of the material 
for his report with the Library's assistance. 

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FOR FARMERS 

Are you a farmer? Or do you long to have "Three acres 
and liberty?" Or to raise violets or mushrooms or chickens? 
Or to help the planter to avail himself of crop diversifica- 
tion, co-operation, agricultural credit? Or to better the 
conditions of country life? Do you know that Goodwyn 
Institute Library has not only the latest and best books on 
all these subjects, but that it is also on the mailing list of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, of the agri- 
cultural experiment stations of the various States and Terri- 
tories, and of the best known agricultural colleges ? 

Recently a farmer investigating soy-bean and cow-pea 
culture in this Library, found bulletins on the subject from 
eleven different States, including Tennessee. This did not 
include the material in the seven volumes of the Farmers' 
Cyclopedia, whose index furnished seventeen references to 
these two crops. Such book and bulletin information is 
supplemented by sixteen farm journals, received weekly or 
monthly. 

When the agricultural or other information desired is 
not at hand, it is promptly secured. A recent case was the 
collecting, from the United States Bureau of Immigration 
and from the immigration departments of ten railroads 
and four States, a mass of material, printed or typewritten, 
on the placing of immigrant agricultural colonies for truck 
farming. This information was gathered for a committee 
of the Farm Development Bureau of the Business Men's 
Club. 



FOR HOUSEWIVES 



If you are a housewife, you will find in Goodwyn Insti- 
tue Library such recent books on household efficiency as 
Christine Frederick's "The New Housekeeping," Child's 
"The Efficient Kitchen," Bruere's "Increasing Home 
Efficiency," Brookman's "Family Expense Account," Robin- 
son's "Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals," 

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Kinne & Cooley's "Foods and Household Management." 
Or such books on home furnishing and decorating as Elsie 
De Wolfe's "The House in Good Taste/' Quinn's "Planning 
and Furnishing the Home/' Clifford's "Period Furnishings/' 
Herts' "Decoration and Furnishing of Apartments." 

Or such books on entertaining as Hall's "Handbook of 
Hospitality for Town and Country/' Madame Merri's "Art 
of Entertaining for All Occasions/' Laughlin's "The Com- 
plete Hostess." And such magazines as The Journal of 
Home Economics, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, The Deline- 
ator, The House Beautiful, House and Garden, Innen- 
Dekoration, The Craftsman. 

An expert on home economics, who recently conducted a 
week's institute for the women of Memphis, made constant 
use of Goodwyn Institute Library during her stay. A list 
of the works on home economics in this Library, published 
in the Commercial Appeal, contained over 50 per cent, of 
the books and magazines especially recommended by this 
expert. 

FOR MOTHERS AND TEACHERS 

If you are a mother or a teacher, there are for you in 
Goodwyn Institute Library books on every phase of the 
care and education of children, their training with reference 
to sex, their physical, mental and moral welfare ; such books 
as Dr. Holt's "Care and Feeding of Children," Siemens' 
"The Prospective Mother," Taylor's "Physical Examination 
and Training of Children," Lyttleton's "Training the 
Young in the Laws of Sex," Cabot's "Ethics for Children," 
Helen Rhodes-Wallace's "Religious Education," Stevens' 
"Guide to the Montessori Method," Johnson's "Education 
by Plays and Games," Winifred SackviUe Stoner's "Natural 
Education," Ellen Key's "Century of the Child," Oppen- 
heim's "Mental Growth and Control." 

There are such helps for the story teller, whether mother, 
teacher or friend, as Lyman's "Story Telling, What to Tell 

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and How/' Bryant's "How to Tell Stories to Children/' 
Houghton's "Telling Bible Stories/' and many others. 

Tiiere are also in the Library such aids to parents and 
teachers in training the growing girl and boy as Forbush's 
"Boy Problem/' Slattery's "Girl in Her Teens/' McKee- 
ver's "Training the Boy/' and "Training the Girl/' and 
his "Industrial Training/' Dr. Hall's "Reproduction and 
Sexual Hygiene/' Lincoln's "Everyday Pedagogy/' Dewey's 
"Schools of Tomorrow/' Smith's "All the Children of All 
the People." 

And such magazines for both mother and teacher as the 
Elementary School Journal, The Kindergarten Primary 
Magazine, Something to Do, The Playground, Work With 
Boys, Manual Training. 

FOR ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, CHEMISTS 

Is there in Memphis an architect, an engineer or a chem- 
ist who does not know that in Goodwyn Institute Library 
he will find the leading journals of his profession, some 
forty of them.^ Or that this Library is building up special 
collections on applied chemistry, on river engineering and 
land drainage, on house plans for Southern homes.'' Eight 
new books on bacteriology, infection and tropical diseases 
were recently bought for the use of the City Department 
of Chemistry and Bacteriology ; five books on hospital archi- 
tecture and construction to meet a special demand in that 
direction. 

FOR REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE MEN 

Is there a real estate or insurance man who does not know 
that Goodwyn Institute Library has made a special eflfort 
to supply the latest literature in his line of business? A 
list of books and pamphlets in the Library on real estate 
questions has been j^repared for the Real Estate Association 
and one on insurance and fire protection for the Fire Pre- 
vention Association and the Insurance Club. A number of 
special pamphlets on insurance matters have been secured 

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to supplement the insurance material in the Library, for 
the Reading Course of the Insurance Club. The Spectator 
(Insurance) and the Real Estate Magazine are on file in the 
Library. 

FOR ALL GOOD CITIZENS 

Are you interested in questions of public welfare.'' In 
better city and State government, in social hygiene, public 
health, the unemployment problem, municipal markets, the 
city beautiful, municipal franchises, smoke abatement, the 
liquor problem, or in any of the other questions of the day 
which no live citizen can afford wholly to ignore? If so, 
you will find Goodwyn Institute Library a clearing house 
of information on the literature of these subjects. 

Twenty-six periodicals, dealing with economic and social 
problems, ranging from the Survey and the American 
Economic Review to The Masses; twelve municipal maga- 
zines, from the American City and the National Municipal 
Review to the Chicago City Club Bulletin; eight periodi- 
cals on public health and hygiene; the publications of six 
municipal research bureaus and of the National Municipal 
League; up-to-date pamphlet collections on one hundred 
and twenty-six social and economic subjects, from woman 
suffrage and national defense to the cost of living and the 
fee system — these constitute a part of the Library's re- 
sources on public questions. 

ON STATE CONSTITUTIONS 

Anticipating a constitutional convention in Tennessee, 
Goodwyn Institute Library is collecting material on con- 
stitution making and revision from every available source, 
notably from the States which have recently revised their 
constitutions. The literature gathered includes the publica- 
tions of the New York State Committee for the Adoption 
of the Constitution; the Proceedings of the Confer- 
ence held at Indiana University, June 8-10, 1914, on 
the question of a constitutional convention in Indiana; re- 

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ports and speeches of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, 
1912; publications of the Municipal Government Associa- 
tion, and of other organizations concerned with special 
subjects of constitutional significance, such as proportional 
representation, short ballot, single tax, equal suffrage, the 
recall, State insurance. Dealey's new work on American 
State Constitutions is a recent purchase. Other important 
works are Dodd's "Modern Constitutions," his "Revision 
and Amendment of State Constitutions," and Thorpe's "Fed- 
eral and State Constitutions," in seven volumes. 

ON THE GREAT WAR 

Every citizen of Memphis is concerned, directly or 
indirectly, with the European war, through its far-reaching 
consequences. Among the innumerable publications which 
the war has brought forth, Goodwyn Institute Library is 
endeavoring to choose some few of permanent value. 
Among these are Stowell's "Diplomacy of the War of 1914," 
to be published in three or more volumes, of which the first 
is recently issued; Simonds' "The Great War," of which 
the volumes covering the first and second periods of the 
war are thus far published; Gibbons' "The New Map of 
Europe," the New York Times "Encyclopedia of the War" 
and its Current History Magazine, the diplomatic docu- 
ments and war maps of the countries involved, and some 
fifteen English, French and German periodicals. 

OTHER SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 

On many other subjects Goodwyn Institute Library has 
special material; for Sunday School teachers, many of the 
best lesson helps; for employers and employes such first 
aids as "The Job, the Man, the Boss," by Blackford & New- 
comb; for business men a growing collection of the best 
books and journals on business management and methods, 
advertising and selling, business psychology, personal effi- 
ciency. For debaters, for club workers, for students of the 
modern drama, of photoplay and short story writing, for 

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students of psychology and metaphysics, Goodwyn Institute 
Library is constantly adding the latest and freshest book, 
periodical and pamphlet literature of their special subjects. 

INFORMATION SERVICE AND STATISTICS 

The Library had on its shelves on September 1, 1915, 
12,747 volumes and 8,179 pamphlets. Supplementing this 
material by the telephone and by correspondence, the 
librarian and lier assistants have looked up for information 
seekers and students an average of one thousand topics per 
month during the past year. These figures do not include 
the use of the Library by the many students who ask no 
assistance nor by the general reader. 

Such questions as the following are typical of many upon 
which information has been furnished: Jitney bus laws of 
various States; German and Italian military requirements 
of naturalized Americans who return to their native country 
in war time ; acidity tests for corn ; method of shield tunnel- 
ing through quicksands;, list of magazines for a debating 
club library ; soil analysis of Terrabone Parish, La. ; paving 
specifications of American Society of Municipal Improve- 
ments; special formula for stearate of zinc; Giessen mental 
measurement test (for efficiency and deficiency) ; creosot- 
ing of wood for wagon making; best form of investment for 
women; relation of the Jew to the European war. 

GIFTS 

The active interest of the citizens of Memphis in Good- 
wyn Institute and its Library is indicated by frequent 
donations of books. Interesting and important gifts of this 
character have been received during the past year from 
Mrs. P. C. Bramhall, Mrs. I. B. Groomes, Mrs. John Lilly, 
Dr. J. C Clark, Rev J. O. Davison, Brother Maurelian, 
Messrs. M. W. Connolly, J. B. Emery, John Gaisford, S. 
B. Hutton, A. J. Lowry, D. M. Lynch, H. H. McMurtrie, 

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C. p. J. Mooney, B. G. Parker, J. R. Pepper, Bolton Smith, 
the late B. A. Root, the University of Tennessee Medical 
College and other friends of the Library. Of these gifts, 
of the generosity of the local newspapers in giving the use 
of their columns for book lists and general information 
about the Library, and of many other courtesies, the officers 
of Goodwyn Institute and its Library are deeply apprecia- 
tive. 

LIBRARY HOURS 

Goodwyn Institute Library is open on every week day, 
legal holidays excepted, for the free use of readers, from 
9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. During the summer months the Library 
closes at 6 p.m. 



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IN MEMORIAM 

Resolutions on the Death of Mr. S. P. Read 

On Monday night_, February 8, 1915, Mr. Samuel P. 
Read, President of the Commissioners of Goodwyn Institute, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four, died at his residence, 
36l South Front street, Memphis, Tennessee. For nearly 
half of a century Mr. Read was President of the Union 
& Planters Bank and its successor. The Union & Planters 
Bank & Trust Company. During his entire business life 
in Memphis he was a leader in financial affairs, whose 
advice was almost universally sought in the financial guid- 
ance and protection of the educational and philanthropic 
institutions and enterprises of this city. 

As a young man in business, Mr. Read and Mr. William 
A. Goodwyn, the revered founder of Goodwyn Institute, 
had been close friends and associates. Thus, when in his 
declining years Mr. Goodwyn had determined to devote his 
large fortune to the founding of Goodwyn Institute in 
Memphis, he turned to Mr. Read for advice and assistance. 
In his will he placed first upon Mr. Read the heavy respon- 
sibility of building Goodwyn Institute Building and of 
starting Goodwyn Institute upon its educational career, and 
asked Mr. Read to name the other men who should be associ- 
ated with him in this work. Upon Mr. Read's suggestion 
the names of these gentlemen were added to and made a 
part of Mr. Goodwyn's will. 

On April 15, 1903, according to the provisions of Mr. 
Goodwyn's will, Mr. Samuel P. Read, Mr. John R. Pepper 
and Mr. J. M. Goodbar were appointed Commissioners of 
Goodwyn Institute. Mr. Read was elected President and 
served continuously in that capacity until his death. 

Mr. Read was, of course, intensely interested in Goodwyn 
Institute, and took much pride and pleasure in its building 
and in its work. Especially did he guard conservatively 
and successfully its financial affairs, for he felt he was best 

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qualified in that line of work and that there was the greatest 
need of his personal services. His death is a great loss to 
Goodwyn Institute and is deeply felt by his associates. 
His example as a man and his work as President of the 
Commissioners of this Institute merit our unreserved ap- 
proval and deserve emulation. 

Therefore, be it resolved: 

That the Commissioners of Goodwyn Institute express 
by these resolutions the loss they themselves feel and the 
Goodwyn Institute has sustained by the death of its first 
President, Mr. Samuel P. Read. 

That they express their appreciation and approval of his 
constant and zealous care of the financial affairs of Good- 
wyn Institute, of his great interest in all of the work of 
the Institute, of his long and faithful service in its behalf, 
and of his uniform courtesy and kindness to his fellow com- 
missioners and to the officers of the Institute. 

That they express their esteem of his sterling value as 
a man, of his splendid proverbial integrity and honesty, and 
of all those pronounced virtues and qualities of ch r \cter 
which made him a leader among his fellowmen. 

And lastly, that they express here the honor and affection 
which they will always accord his memory. 

Be it further resolved, that these resolutions be copied 
in the minutes of this meeting of the Commissioners of 
Goodwyn Institute as a permanent record and memorial to 
Mr. Samuel P. Read, our departed President and friend. 

(Signed) J. M. Goodbar, 
J. R. Pepper, 
W. J. Crawford, 
Commissioners of Goodwyn Institute. 

The death of Mr. S. P. Read made it necessary that a 
new Commissioner of Goodwyn Institute be appointed. 

Mr. W. J. Crawford, President of the Commercial Pub- 
lishing Company of Memphis, had been recommended to 
Mr. Goodwyn by Mr. Read as a man possessing the excep- 

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tional qualifications of character and ability desired by Mr. 
Goodwyn in a Commissioner of Goodwyn Institute, and Mr. 
Crawford's name, together with the names of several other 
men of Memphis, had been incorporated in Mr. Goodwyn's 
will in a codicil dated May 2, 1898. Accordingly, on March 
5, 1915, Governor Thomas C. Rye appointed Mr. W. J. 
Crawford as Commissioner of Goodwyn Institute, to succeed 
Mr. Read, and his appointment was immediately confirmed 
by the Senate of the State of Tennessee. 

The Board of Commissioners of Goodwyn Institute now 
consists of Mr. J. M. Goodbar, President, Mr. John R. 
Pepper, Secretary, and Mr. W. J. Crawford. 



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SOURCE OF MAINTENANCE 

Goodwyn Institute has been self-supporting from the day- 
its building was opened to tenants in March, 1907, and 
must continue so. All funds for maintaining the educa- 
tional work of the Institute are derived from the rentals 
of the offices and the Auditorium of Goodwyn Institute 
Building. Thus the extent and efficiency both of the 
Lectures and Library, as far as finances are concerned, 
depend upon the constant occupancy of its offices and the 
frequent leasing of the Auditorium. 

BUSINESS OFFICES IN BUILDING 

The offices in Goodwyn Institute Building are large, airy 
and desirable. The Superintendent solicits inspection of 
them by reputable business and professional men and 
women, who wish first-class, well-located offices. Careful 
attention is paid to keeping the entire building sanitary, 
comfortable and attractive. 

CO-OPERATION SOLICITED 

The real success of an endowed, iTee educational insti- 
tution is dependent upon the good will, active interest and 
liberal patronage of the public. To accomplish its mis- 
sion it must reach large numbers of people. The people 
of Memphis, realizing that Goodwyn Institute is their in- 
stitution—the permanent gift of a generous fellow-citizen 
for their benefit — have wisely taken advantage of the edu- 
cational opportunities provided by the Institute, and have 
continuously encouraged its work by their interested sup- 
port and attendance. 

In closing this Year Book, the Commissioners and Offi- 
cers of Goodwyn Institute wish to extend to the citizens 
of Memphis sincere appreciation of their splendid patron- 

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age and co-operation, to earnestly solicit its continuance, 
and to express the determination that the excellence and 
efficiency of the Institute's Lectures and Library shall con- 
tinue to merit a still wider recognition. 



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